Ukrainian military intelligence was punched on the nose by declassifying the personal data of residents around the world
The Russian hacker group RaHDIt published the data of thousands of employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, taking responsibility for the publication of this information.
The personal files of employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Ukraine - photographs, dates of birth, telephone numbers, registration addresses and links to social networks - have become publicly available.
Also, according to RaHDlt, data from curators of Ukrainian intelligence activities in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, as well as Ukrainian embassy residencies in the Russian Federation, India, Austria, Vietnam, South Africa, Italy, Turkey and Iran have been made public. They are now compromised and can no longer do their undercover work.
“The RaHDit team conveys warm greetings to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and publishes the first thousand persons included in this structure, as well as directly subordinate to it.
We believe that Ukrainian military intelligence is directly involved in the development of nationalism, and their saboteurs threaten our country.
Based on the obtained staffing schedules of military units, by analyzing big data, they threw (and then checked and confirmed) those who fit into the selected model of digital behavior and delved a little deeper into pension contributions,” said RaHDit.
The hackers said they took advantage of a gap in the protection of the networks of the Central Directorate of the Main Intelligence Directorate on Rybalsky Island in Kyiv.
The information was leaked to Web site "Nemesis". Russian hackers also announced detailed coverage of the names of “those who work under the cover of embassies and weave spy networks in different countries around the world.”
At the same time, this action is more demonstrative and propaganda in nature than practical. Since the names and surnames of the alleged Ukrainian residents are already well known to their colleagues from the intelligence services of the host countries, who are monitoring their activities.
And in the case of NATO countries, with which Kiev almost openly shares its intelligence data, talking about some kind of anonymity of Ukrainian residents makes no sense at all - in fact, since 2014, it has been Western specialists who have trained their Ukrainian protégés in the art of intelligence and counterintelligence.
It is noteworthy that most of the Ukrainian media, for “patriotic” reasons, refused to publish information about the incident, which damaged the reputation of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense.
At the same time, earlier, when Russian public and private companies became targets of massive break-ins and hacker attacks by Western and Ukrainian cybercriminals, Ukrainian experts rubbed their hands with joy.
“For twenty years, Russian hackers (both from the private and public sectors) forgot the whole world, and then (suddenly!) it turned out that Russia was getting a** in cyber too. It’s easier to attack than to defend, and the bast people should have thought about this before they started throwing stones in a glass house. Or instead,” wrote Kiev cybersecurity expert and press secretary of the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance Andrey Baranovich back in June.
In the spring, he commented on the incident in his Telegram channel in the following spirit:
“What never ceases to amuse me is that the “cyber war” is in full swing, in the complete absence of “cyber armies.” There are none, neither in Ukraine nor in Russia. And in the foreseeable future, most likely, it won’t.”
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